GMO free, has anyone done it?

[oddity83]

I was wondering if anyone has gone GMO free? I am trying to get into a more natural lifestyle and I am having trouble with GMOs they seem to be every where and not always labeled. Does anyone have any tips or advice for a newbie in natural living?

 

[BotanyBoy]

I was wondering if anyone has gone GMO free? I am trying to get into a more natural lifestyle and I am having trouble with GMOs they seem to be every where and not always labeled. Does anyone have any tips or advice for a newbie in natural living?

Buy land, with water on it, do it yourself.

 

[Penuche]

Move to Europe, there's a lot less use of GM food and GM ingredients.

Also, if you buy organic meat, eggs, and milk, the livestock used to produce it has generally been raised GM free.

 

[1sickbastard]

Also, if you buy organic meat, eggs, and milk, the livestock used to produce it has generally been raised GM free.

^^^This. Look for the USDA organic seal:
http://www.usda.gov/img/content/usda-organic-seal.png

Also look for the Non-gmo Project seal. The Non-gmo Project is an independent, third-party which certifies products as gmo free.
https://www.downtoearth.org/sites/default/files/images/uploads/182/2010/09/Non-GMO_small.jpg

 

[Hard_Rom]

Don't buy processed foods. 80-90% of NA corn, canola and soy is GMO. So there is no real way of telling unless directly marketed as GMO free.

 

[phrodeau]

You need to be able to read a QR code.

 

[Noor]

I am pretty much GMO free, but I don't really have a choice in the matter.
I eat very little if any processed foods because I can't.
I don't have soy, corn or canola.
I don't choose my foods by their GMO-free status, I choose by what I can eat, they just happen to GMO-free.
For me GMO is just more possible allergens.

 

[underguy1]

Unless you supply all your own food, it's just about impossible to do these days, even in the majority of the world's countries don't legally allow GMOs.

Thanks capitalism, thanks America.

You've poisoned the worlds' food supply all based on a pack of lies.

 

[warrior queen]

I am pretty much GMO free, but I don't really have a choice in the matter.
I eat very little if any processed foods because I can't.
I don't have soy, corn or canola.
I don't choose my foods by their GMO-free status, I choose by what I can eat, they just happen to GMO-free.
For me GMO is just more possible allergens.

Me too.
I don't eat any processed foods. Nor do I eat grains, apart from GMO-free rice.
I make everything from scratch, including sauces, jams, dressings, etc.
I mainly do this because they taste better!
I also buy my meat, eggs and veges direct from the farms close by.

 

[Hypoxia]

Virtually everything you consume is genetically modified, It was selectively bred to be what it is. Gene-splicing speeds the process but it's the same process The result of the process, however it's approached, is to produce more food to feed more people. Eliminating GMO foods now would cause massive starvation, even genocide.

I recall a report from a couple decades back, detailing a meeting of the Politburo in Beijing. The commissars agreed upon a strategy of buying-up GMO patents while funding anti-GMO propaganda. The goal is to control the West's food supply. Instill and exploit fear. (How many anti-GMO groups survive on Chinese money?) When global warming destroys traditional croplands and global starvation looms, China can whip out its survivable GMO crops and say, "Pay up or die."

When starving masses assault your anti-GMO doors, what you gonna do?

 

[underguy1]

Virtually everything you consume is genetically modified, It was selectively bred to be what it is. Gene-splicing speeds the process but it's the same process The result of the process, however it's approached, is to produce more food to feed more people. Eliminating GMO foods now would cause massive starvation, even genocide.

I recall a report from a couple decades back, detailing a meeting of the Politburo in Beijing. The commissars agreed upon a strategy of buying-up GMO patents while funding anti-GMO propaganda. The goal is to control the West's food supply. Instill and exploit fear. (How many anti-GMO groups survive on Chinese money?) When global warming destroys traditional croplands and global starvation looms, China can whip out its survivable GMO crops and say, "Pay up or die."

When starving masses assault your anti-GMO doors, what you gonna do?

Koolade drinking idiot.

Or parody.

 

[Penuche]

Virtually everything you consume is genetically modified, It was selectively bred to be what it is. Gene-splicing speeds the process but it's the same process The result of the process, however it's approached, is to produce more food to feed more people. Eliminating GMO foods now would cause massive starvation, even genocide. <snip>

"Up to a point, Lord Copper..."

Answering your last point first, because I can, starvation and malnutirion are not caused by a food shortage per se, but by a failure to distribute food in an equitable manner. That distribution problem won't be fixed by GM crops, but by political and economic measures.

Secondly, hybridization (ie selective breeding of two types of grain, cattle etc) to improve farming productivity is not to be conflated with genetic modifcation, which introduces genes from completely different species which could never interbreed (eg a fish gene into strawberries to stop them turning to mush when frozen). Except... that the end product s wrapped around with so many terms and conditions that the real winner here is the developer and mareketer of GM, not the farmer, the retailer, or the consumer.

Thirdly, genetic modification commonly uses a gene from nuts as a marker at the end of each bit spliced. so far so harmless, except that it means you've suddenly got a lot of people with nut allergies finding that maize, soya, etc are making them ill (or killing them) because of that genetic marker.

Fourthly, when it comes to Round Up resistant crops (eg rapeseed), again that's fine and good as far as it goes... except that the gene in those crops confuses bees. There's also the problem of weeds (good king henry is close enough to rapeseed for this to happen) which are in more or less the same plant family as the crop eventually becoming Round Up resistant through hybridization.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Virtually everything you consume is genetically modified, It was selectively bred to be what it is. Gene-splicing speeds the process but it's the same process

Jesus Christ in a bucket, stop spreading the 100% completely bogus info....please.

I'ts not the same process.

Not even remotely close.

 

[Penuche]

<snip> I'ts not the same process.

Not even remotely close.

Agreed.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hunting unicorns with bad science...


I agree with Hypoxia. Have you not looked into what corn looked like before we began genetically altering it?

Free-range, organic and gmo-free people think they are doing themselves a favor when in fact all they are doing is finding a way to make their food more expensive. Furthermore, with a ballooning population, without gmo crops, people are going to go hungry and water will get dirtier from fertilizer runoff.

So maybe you believe that a gmo-crop will kill you, but the alternative isn't any better for you or the planet. You can either science the fuck out of a problem, or you can hide behind superstition in a veneer of science and fall prey to the problem when it is too late to do a damned thing about it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Jesus Christ in a bucket, stop spreading the 100% completely bogus info....please.

I'ts not the same process.

Not even remotely close.

True enough, but when the results are the same...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How can you tell when science is not on your side?

When you start a thread based on the dangers of gmo food, but supply absolutely no research, just opinion and what you "know" to be true. Why science the fuck out of something when you can just say what everyone you know says...



That's how science works in "pop" culture.

 

[BotanyBoy]

True enough, but when the results are the same...

From a common perspective of a human manipulated organism yes. But the similarities really do end pretty much right there at that basic level. Everything about GMO's from a biology perspective says they are fundamentally different organisms from selectively bred ones.

I'm not even criticizing GMO's....because GM in and of it self isn't bad. Hell as a biologist I think it's going to the moon level of cool. But that's a different topic.

My only point here is that GMO and selective breeding are as much alike as the space shuttle and my neighbors horses. They are both methods of transportation, and the similarities end there.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You get what you want in a fraction of the time.


~giggity~

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

where is the best place to get GMO's for free bro?

Stew

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

An Iowa cornfield bro!


But you better move fast and in a zig-zag motion...

bro​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

...

Consumption of fish and seafood, specifically, has been rising meteorically since the early 1980s. Today, a typical Chinese consumes more seafood than a typical American. And that, of course, has led to many an article about the imminent depletion of global fish stocks and subsequent environmental catastrophe.

But people who worry about the new and more expensive eating habits of people in formerly poor countries need not worry too much. Human ingenuity and free markets have a way of satisfying demand in affordable and environmentally sustainable ways.

Consider aquaculture. According to a recent Bloomberg story, scientists in Australia "are attempting to unlock the genome of the Black Tiger prawn to make a super invertebrate that will grow faster, fight disease more effectively and taste better than its free-roaming brethren… The prawns will grow on a 10,000 hectare… slice of the Legune cattle ranch, near the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia."

...

http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/27/rising-prosperity-means-getting-to-eat-m

Combatting world hunger with Science.

 

[trysail]

Virtually everything you consume is genetically modified, It was selectively bred to be what it is. Gene-splicing speeds the process but it's the same process The result of the process, however it's approached, is to produce more food to feed more people. Eliminating GMO foods now would cause massive starvation, even genocide.

I recall a report from a couple decades back, detailing a meeting of the Politburo in Beijing. The commissars agreed upon a strategy of buying-up GMO patents while funding anti-GMO propaganda. The goal is to control the West's food supply. Instill and exploit fear. (How many anti-GMO groups survive on Chinese money?) When global warming destroys traditional croplands and global starvation looms, China can whip out its survivable GMO crops and say, "Pay up or die."

When starving masses assault your anti-GMO doors, what you gonna do?

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★★★★★

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[chillywilly2]

Buy land, with water on it, do it yourself.

This,^^^ but you also have to buy what they call heritage seeds because the seed you buy is GMO.

I don't have a lot against GMO stuff except for the fact that they have modified the taste out of it.
Tomatoes are like eating cardboard.

Get heritage seed and start enjoying the taste again

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


You're just getting older and losing your taste buds...